Cordia Tab open source device running MeeGo & Cordia's port of Maemo's Hildon-Desktop
Tomasz Sterna announces with little fanfare a very impressive project called Cordia Tab. A 7" tablet (based on existing hardware, which should speed up availability) running the Cordia HD interface - a completely open source version of Hildon Desktop. Cordia Open Tablet - is an effort to bring a practical, openly hackable, Open Source tablet device to Maemo & MeeGo communities. The hardware specification (available on the project page) certainly looks capable. Time will tell how the community will react to this project, but it might be worth it to note that it is coming from the opposite direction of the OpenPandora project. OpenPandora was started by hardware engineers with cutom-produced hardware to run an existing OS. Cordia Tab has been started by a software engineer and is based on existing hardware running an in-development OS (but will also run existing OSs).
Minifile - minimal file browser for Harmattan
MeeGo.com user "sfietkonstantin" has started a project for a much needed application in Harmattan: a file browser. The author admits that it is in the early stages with some work left to do: I have coded this simple app in two days and do not have time to make an icon yet ...I'm not satisfied yet because minifile lacks some features: Icons for files and folders, Breadcrum navigation, Search, Fast scroll, Settings (start directory), Maybe some animations Harmattan advances the filesystem-less filemanagement that Apple has pushed with iOS. This has its advantages and disadvantages, but for a platform like Harmattan it's likely that a real filesystem browser will prove useful.
FlowPlayer, cover-flow style music player
Matias Perez has announced a very nice looking, very simplistic music player called FlowPlayer. It doesn't have an over-abundance or features, but it gets you straight to your music and looks beautiful doing it. I made this little music player, but it's more like a toy instead a real media player, cause here's no options for this or for that... The only think you can do is scroll the album list, select one and start playing. I'll still working on it this you like it, to add more features. The application is only available as a standalone binary deb at the moment, so volunteers willing to assist with packaging should get in touch with Matias.
MeePasswords - password manager for Maemo and Harmattan
Ruediger Gad announces MeePasswords for password storage in Fremantle and Harmattan. There are already some tools for storing passwords available for Fremantle. Though, I could not find any tool for Harmattan. Hence I created MeePasswords. Furthermore, MeePasswords features some eye candy such as animated transitions and the like. Generally, the design goal of the MeePasswords user interface was to allow quick and easy interaction. MeePasswords was initially developed for Harmattan. The Fremantle version was then ported based on the Harmattan version. The Fremantle version tries to mimic / MeePassword has also been submitted to the MeeGo Coding Competition 2011.
Drummer - a drumming app (needs packaging assistance)
{usre:skykooler} has released an initial version of his drumming app - "Drummer" - for the N900. So, I started work on a drumming app for the N900. Very simple at the moment, tap the drums to hear them. I plan to add record/playback functionality in the near future. It uses clutter for rendering, and pygame for the sound. The current version needs to be installed by extracting an archive into MyDocs, so packaging would be a welcome improvement. Until then, those with limited testing experience should probably steer clear.
TodoList - widget for managing to-do lists from homescreen
Giovanni Grammatico has put together a homescreen widget, TodoList, (based on QtMobility) which, appropriately enough, provides a todo list on your homescreen. Currently available only from Extras-devel, testers should take care it its handling.
WiFi hacking on N900 gets easier with Cleven UI
Christos Saturn has developed an user-friendly interface for aircrack-ng on the N900 called "Cleven". It provides the ability to easily configure the injection drivers, scan for surrounding stations, and, using injection and authentication or deauthentication, capture Identification Vector keys. In addition, it provides interfaces to decrypt the captured files and manage the successful attacks. "User-friendly" is obviously a relative term, as users without some knowledge of what they are doing (and a good solid reason for doing it) probably aren't the target here. Users that know what they are doing will find it much easier with a good solid UI.
BabyPhone for Harmattan
Roman Morawek has published his first Harmattan version of babyphone (also available for Maemo5). From the project page: The babyphone is a baby monitoring application that measures the audio noise level. If the volume exceeds a configurable threshold the phone initiates a call to a predefined phone number (the parents) Roman's forum post also give some details about his porting experience. Your editor installed this for a wedding this weekend, and it seemed simple enough to use and get started with.
my-meego.com app index
A new application aggregator has been launched for Harmattan at my-meego.com, brought to you by the same gentleman who brought you my-symbian.com and my-maemo.com: Michal Jerz: I thought I'd let you know that I launched the MeeGo Harmattan Software Catalog on My-MeeGo today. Over 70 apps are already listed (with short descriptions, screenshots) and downloadable. Not a big deal, but hopefully a nice way to have an overview of what has already been released and be able to quickly find an app instead of browsing dozens of sites and forums, especially now that no official downloads, repositories, Ovi store section etc. exist yet. I will be doing my best to collect software from all sources so that the catalog is as complete and as up-to-date as possible. Some of the feedback has caused some friction; but this may be left-over from my-maemo.com, which lists the latest versions of all applications, without differentiating between -devel, -testing and Extras. This leads to users having additional repositories enabled, and unintended upgrades (and breakage) of other applications.